James Joyce: Trending quotes (page 6)

“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”

“What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.”

“I think of you so often you have no idea.”

“He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.”

“Be just before you are generous.”

“You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.”

“Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.”

“Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.”

“I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses”

“Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.”

“For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.”

“A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”

“By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.”

“Absence, the highest form of presence.”

“I am other I now.”

“When I die, Dublin will be written on my heart.”

“I have left my book,
I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom.”

“Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”

“No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.”